Tony Blair Quotes

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.

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• I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

  

  Sadaharu Oh
  • Good
  • Home
  • Strong

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • Great
  • Live

• To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Feeling
  • Amazing
  • Couple

• This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Children
  • Together

• A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Free
  • Privilege
  • License

• I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Woman
  • Will
  • Presidential

• The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

  

  Yann Martel
  • World
  • Art
  • Think

• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Society
  • Group
  • Selfishness

• Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Right
  • Difference
  • Between

• The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Opportunities
  • Wherever

• I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Home
  • Book
  • Year

• I knew if I had gone to school - if I had gone to Juilliard and danced for four years - I would have spent every day wondering what would have happened if I had gone to Los Angeles instead.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • School
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I'm looking to make history.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • History
  • Looking
  • Make

• It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Humility
  • Heat

• When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Heart
  • Dark

• So, if you have a grandma, thank the good Lord above, and give your grandmamma hugs and kisses, for grandmothers are to love.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Good
  • Giving
  • Grandmother

• But there is something seriously problematic about radicals and progressives in American politics. Some say it's the two-party system that squashes third parties. Some say that it's the potentiality or expanse of the middle class that marginalizes people that want to reform the system itself. Some make a sort of psychological analysis, that the left doesn't want to win, that success means co-optation. All of those things have some merit.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • People
  • American
  • Success

• The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office.

  

  Andrew Bacevich
  • Party
  • President
  • Roles

• That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

  

  Michael Harrington
  • Important
  • Poor
  • Invisible

• What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Events
  • Roots
  • Reform